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THE-OZZZZU SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY UCZllUZQ. AUGUST V 1ZZ1. - - - - Leaves !ood WqrK Dons by . Portland : IibtitdlioiF IN eivery city there at two cltmi . af woman whoae neede can be mat in only on way. and that la by , eatablishlng a connecting link ha "' tMn tha two. Tha flrat of theae la ' eompoeed of gentlewomen who from re twmi or from Other cauaaa ara obliged " to- become,' rn,nymakre. Thay ara s-"waa to and' generally unfitted by vUfc- eecludedUlfe from eeeking work : v outside tha- noma, and their only ne- gotlabfe , taient.-maju.baihi . ability .to. make aeucioua piaa ana caaea, or por--','; hapa they -ara . handy with tha needle , ,, and can make - baby elothea that are . marvela of dalntlnaaa and beauty." Tba v - queatloa for a tony tlma waa how to put thaaa things on tha msrket 'Nona . . of tha aaual avanuaa of aale Beamed to meet tha apaclal requlremente of tha home-worker. - , - , ' -,i , '''' ' i : Than' thara -were- tha women who wanted theae very thlnga, who-longed " for , tha email hand-made artlclaa of ; wearing apparel or who -wiabed to buy ;. home cooking, but did not know, where to set 'them. -. - : . i ' :- 1 Tula problem of supply and demand waa solved by Mrs, William O. Chosts of New York, who in 1171 atarted what 'waa called the "Woman'a .Exchange," "designed eapeclally for the benefit of ; -needy gentlewomen. The Idea waa a great auccaaa, and irom Mr a. Choate'a amall venture there haa artaen In New York alone four different and Inde .", pendent - exchange , -. ;,,,.,.., ,. When It Wu Started. !.' The' Portland Woman'a union, eon vinoed that thla city waa in need of aueh an . institution, atarted a Woman'a Exchange in December, 1101, and main tamed a amall booth for fancy work on L (l . , I . . - Jit- a -r ,a ' , ' "Waahlnaton atreet The Ventura waa '-well received, Ita auccaaa Juetlfled en - larclnc the acope o? tba work., and It , waa moved into larger and more com .' fort able quartera at 111 Tenth atreet, . . ' The Portland Woman'a Escbange la . conducted nnder the aama general rulea for all exchange work. There la a " board of managera, of which Mlaa Hen rletta E. Falling la chairman, Ura. Mar . tin Winch - recording aecretary, Mlaa c Eleanor- Qlle correapondlng aecretary, ' f' and. Mra. William ,-JUvord treaaurer. -Mra. J. C. Oauld. -Mra. faam White, Mra. C. . Jackaon, Mra. Holt C. Wilson. Mra. Pavld Robertaon, ","M ra 8. R. Johnson, Mra- Leon- Hlreclv Jare, EV T, -William a, ' , Mra. Slgmund Frank, Mra. 8. A. Brown, . v Mlaa Mary Montgomery and Mra. 8. T. ; Hamilton aerve as heads or the various eommlttoea. Mlaa McDonald is auper- : SntRidant: : t- ; I The expenses of . auch an undertaking -a- are large ana the exchang la only part- . ly eelf-eupporting. It la aided by sub : .- acrlptlon members at tl a year. Tba ' ' consigning members pay tl a year, . which must be paid on entering gooda, and g commission of 1 per- cent 1a made on all - articles - sold. -The . beat aoarca of revenue, however, la the v lunchroom run In connection with tha exchange and supplied with home cook If lag by the consignors. .j . . ! What 8omc People Earn. - f ' Many people have the idea that It :! ;r. , la next to Impossible to make -much by British History of j President Roosevelt t t t BRITISH work on genealogy, uat issuea. puoiisnvv of arma-of Tneooore itooseven. ava the New Tors World, and - haa thla to say of tha ancestry and his 1 tory of tha president of tha United ' . tutea! ' Bom at New,T6rk, IT Oct. 1SS; m. : firstly. 17 Oct. llao. Alice Hathaway, dau. of Oeorge Cabot Lee, and. by her (who d. 14 Feb. H4). has Issue: ' AHbe Lee. b, 11 Feb. lSS4;,m. 17 Feb. , 1I0, Nicholas, son of Ntcholaa tong ' ' worth Of Cincinnati, O., by Susan, hll rfe. dau., of Judge Timothy Walker. , He m.. aecondly, I Dec. lift, Edltn Xerntlt. dau. of Charlea Carow. and, by bar. has Issue:. 1. Theodore. b- II "Pt- HIT. Kermlt, b. I Oct; 111. W I. Archibald Bullock, b. April 1114. 4uenUn. b. It JiOTJf!. . ' a wihel carow. b. It Aug. 11. ' President Theodore Roosevelt gradu ated at Harvard unlveraity, lata: LL D. I'elambia university, lt; I.I,, p. Hope cla. 1MH t.U D. Tale, 101; LU D. Harvard, itol; snemher of the New Tork state aeeembly, IM1-I; United Btatea etvll - aervlee - eommlaaloner. 1 If ; .miuinnor. New York City, ' fltl: asslatant eecreUry of the United.' -. Berarded Aa Am Osssn. In aome parts of Siberia r a bride groom on arriving at home commands Ms wife to Uka off bis boots.-, Ia one Is a whip and la tba other Is a purse. The contents of the boot aha flrat ae ,ete fr removal presage whether he la to be generoua or reverse to her. A very kind husband wlU put a puree la boot and smlt the whip, to make bar believe that bar ebeUe is auspicious. ii ' m-. rv 'r ?A.'V( Ik "1 r ' T r t w S'v S f ilS.. Woman's Exchange, . working aa a ' consignor' of W ei- change, . but a few examplee will prove thla erroneoua. , For two years ending May, HOC, one consignor received f 1, !., another received I1.03S for' It montha' work, ending on the aama data. The exchange la open from I a. m. to C:SO p. m., but nothing except orders are received after 10 a. m. . If you wish to become a consignor write or call on Mlaa McDonald, the superintendent, and aha will let you have a circular giving tha rulea of the exchange. - In doing work to be aubmitted for approval It la better to devote your time to making one -or two thinga wall, aa everything made for the exchange must - be ' the beat of Ita kind: it la also desirable to make the . price moderate ; in order tO )n"r apeetly aalfc The. work af .he xchnga la divided Into three general departments the art and fancy work, tha domeatlo and tha lunchroom. ; Tha art and fancy work department baa a large - number : of beautiful and exqulalt articles on aale and, if de sired, orders wlllbe taken for soy work "than can' be done by hand: all orders are carefully executed and of a standard equal, to the. sample,, so that one may be aura of being well pleased with the,' result, Thla'. -apartment makes a specialty of Infants' layouts aad the dainty, hand-made dreaa aocea- aorlea so Indispensable to the particular woman.:' . i States navy, llti-tlj governpr of the atate of New Tork, llt-l00; colonel First regiment United Btatea volunteer cavalry, which ho organised: aerved with distinction throughout tba campaign of Santiago de ' Cuba (Spanish-American war); vice-prealdentj of the United Statea, November. 100' president, Sep tember. 1101. , i , , - ? ANCEITRT. ' Claea Martehssen ' Van Roaenvelt of Zeeland. Holland, who emigrated to New Netberlan 1441-60. bad Issue: , t 1. Isaac. ' I. Nicholas, of whom below.' ' I 'Nicholas Roosevelt Uftl-1741), b. Sept. lift; alderman of New Tork. Iftt 1701 ; espoused the cause of -tha colon ists; m. lift. HeyltJe.Jana Kunat, by whom ha had laaue: 1. laaac. t t I. Nlcholaa. x I, .Jacobus. -. - . i. 4. Johannes, of whom below. Jnhannee Roosevelt dtlt- ), bap. t March. Itlf, at Eaopue. N T.; alder man. ete. m. Hey tje gjjoerta, and, by her, had Issue. I Jacobus Roosevelt (1714 - ),- bap. I Auaust, 1714: In New Tork Colonial troopa, U-AnnatJe Bogard and left la aue.i , Jacobua Roosevelt (17I-1I40), bap. II Oa la tempera as laagwafe. From Success Magaslne. , ' Exaggeration Infects the ldess of most reformers. Working , overtime, caatlng atonea at tha things they com plain of. They ara largely concerned over nonessentials, overlooking primary eauaea of human progress. Evolution la retarded by revolution one la a down pour, the other a prooeaa. In baxmany wlib universal law . , , , , , , ST -i : 1 jjiwi i i i i Ti I i I" I r- f & 83 , r, Iewwi ftiai W-eia v on Tenth Street. in V -. K The domestl- department haa beoome deaervedly popular and catera to the beat trade In towrvln all home-made table delicacies. Everything on aale here la maintained at a high standard of excellence, and one may be aura of get ting full value for one'a money. Bread, cake, and all tba different klnda of pas tries, besides ptcklee. Jellies, and pre serves, are on aale and orders may be left for anything not in stock. - The-public doea not know enough about tha Exchange lunch room, which is open for luncheon from 11.S0 a. m. to I p. m.. afternoon tea la served from t to 4 .o'clock p. m. The lunch room lb large and cool and "the tables look In viting with Immaculate linen and fresh flowers. Here men and women may order luncheon . and be daintily and quickly served : with appetising bome uuuked food t moderate prices. Many men used to think that the lunch room waa only for women, but now a number of business men make , It .their regular Dlsee for lunch. Mothers who wish their school chil dren to have hot lunches may snake the necearary arrangemante with tha auper Intandent. A particular feature of tha Exchange ia to take orders for special dlshea for functions, luncheons, teaa. aad s forth, The- women are working hard - to make the Exchange a success aad ara devoting both tlma and money to that object. , A good way to help la to give eotne deserving woman a consignor a ucsei for tna Exchange. t October, 1750; commissary in New Tork troopa in the , Revolutionary -war; m Mary Helen Van Schaack, and, dying 1140. left, by her (who d.. 1144), laaue; . Cornellua - Van Schaack Rooaevelt (1714-1171). b. 10. January. 1714; m. Margaret Barohlll (a descendant of Thomaa Potts, member of the New Jer sey provincial congress), and, - by her (who d, 1811). had alx children, the last of whom waa: , i Theodore Rooaevelt (1IJ1-1I7I) ib. September, llll: collector of the port of New Tork; m. tl December, lift; Mar tha, dau. of Major Jsmee Stephen Bui lock, and, by her (who t 11 February, 1184), left Issue; 1. Theodore, president of the United States. - , . . 1. Elliott, b. II February, lltO; tn. Hll. Anna lull. ' ., , -. S Ann. K 9. I.hii,,. llll, a. 1111 WUUam--Cwleav-thntWtatwf navy. ... 4. Corlnne, b. IT September, 1111; m. If It, Douglaa Robinson. " ' Residences The White House, Wash ington. D.. C; Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay. Long Island. . Clubs Union League, Republican, Century, Harvard. fleawnnhaka, Corin thian Tacht, Delta Kappa Epallon, aJWWlll 8111(2 V-rUVRVla, '' Too romg- to Take Staadlng. The -billionaire had been adjudged guilty. The residing juetlce, looking at him aternly, said: ' "Prisoner, I will now read the Met of Crimea, under the poor food, anti-trust and other laws, that you havabeen con victed of. -"And during the reading," esld the doomed man. faintly, "will rout honor allow me to sit oownr1 My AutQ biography: - K By COVHT TOLSTOI - M Y FATHER had it an early age become hia parents , ony His younger brother, Ilenka, -, -,1th an accident - which made him a cripple, and ha died whHe still a child. 1 ' - I. in 1111 my father waa IT yeare old, and. to the dTaguet of hi. whole family, he entered the military eervtce. At thla time Prince Nlcholae i Oorteohakow, a ralatlva of my grandmother. Princess Oortachakow, waa minister of war. while hla brother-was -commamler-ln-enier-or the armies In field, and my father waa made hla adjutant. v .m.wen.t through the campalgne In 1111 and 1114, and - 5Jf"r year waa aent aa a courier to Germany, where he waa captured by the French and waa kept a prteoner until the fol- lEven jefore he entered the mllltry service, when he waa only If, hla par enta had provided him wlth a mlstreaa, S girl with whomti had a eon. Mlschen ka who became a ataga driver. Aa long a my father lived thla eon made hla own living, but when he died he began to drink and often applied to.ua, hla grown-up half -brothera, for money. . - I well remember how aahamed I felt whan this brotner, - wno resemmwi m father 'more than any of ua, came to us for assistance, and waa thankful for 10 or If rubiea. r- ' After the war my father, 'who had grown tired of army life, -retired from tha service and came to Kesan where my grandfather, who had lost hla forrt tune, waa gpvernor, ana wnera my uuv, who had married Juahkow, waa living. My grandfather died soon afterwards and left my father nothing, but debta and tha obligation of providing for hla mother and sister, who were used to liv ing In luxury. . v At that time bla marriage with my mother waa arranged, and, he went to Jaauaja - Poljana. . where he became a widower, after nine yeara of married life. My father waa a very vtvacloua man, of medium height, pleasant features and very earnest looking eyea. He spent bis time taking care of the aetata, though ha was not a very good manager. He waa not cruel, but . very weak, and I never heard of any of tha serfs having been beaten or punished. It la likely, however, that - auch punishment waa uaed, aa It waa considered impossible to manage aerfe without it. (..- Once, after my father'a death, X heard of auch punlahment for the flrat time. We children were coming back from a walk with our tutor when we met the fat overaeer, Andre Fljln. followed by the assistant coachman, -cross-eyed Kusma," near the barn.. Kusma, who was married and no longer young, looked very downcast. We asked ndrej Fljln where he waa going, and he replied that he waa going to the barn to puniah Kusma. I can never forget the impres sion which Kusma's aad face made upon me. '-; " ' In the evening I told my aunt Tatlana Alexandrewna, who hated corporal pun ishment and who never allowed it. t be used. - '. . . '-. . A-j V '- v ' -' f : She. looked very Indignant at what I told her, and asked: "Why did you not forbid him to beat KuamaT" - Her words made ma feel even worse, for I had never thought that I might have done so, and now It was too late. I return again to my impression of my iathe. Hla work consisted In the man-4 agement of the eatata and in noimng court. He waa very often away from home, being fond of hunting and fishing. His companions were hla old friend, KlreJewskL a wealthy bachelort Jaalkow, Qlebow and lalenjew. '! wnatever time ne naa ten anar at tending to hia affairs and looking after ua children he apent in reading. He got together a library consisting of French classical works, books on history and natural history. , . ... . " I remember him very well alttlng In hla library on a . leather-covered divan, smoking hla pipe when we came in ' to bid him .good night, and alao how ha uaed to pet ua and play with us and let ua play on tha divan while be waa in structing the overaeer, wbo stood at the door, or chatting wltn my goaiainer, Jaalkow.'' I alao remember how the painted clo tures, which aeemed wonderful to ua. -and also how he at one time made me re cite veraea by Puachkln which I had learned by heart, and how the . feeling with which I recited these vereee made a atrong liumesslon on lllltl. Ha listened in silence until I waa through ' and looked toward Jaalkow. with an expres sion of pride on his face. I noticed that aomething In my way of expressing the sentiments of the poet had pleased him snd I waa exceedingly happy. I alao remember how he uaed to tell Di lokea and atoriea during dinner and aupper, ao that even my grandmother and my aunt laughed aa much aa we children.--1 remember how he uaed to go td that city and how handsome I thought he looked In hla frockcoat and narrow trousers, but atllt more .vivld la my Impression of him aa he looked when he bsft-the house to go hunting. I re member how we uaed to go walking with him and how the young' greyhounds who followed him ran across tha unmown fields, ao that they almoat disappeared among tall grass, and they uaed to Jump around ua, proud of our admiration, tl remember how we on the flrat of Sep tember, the day of tha hunting festival, road In a llnelka to tha clearing In tha woods, where a fox waa turned loose, and how tha greyhound ran after It, and how it, at last, waa caught far away, by the a-revhounde. More than by anything elae I was Im pressed by tha wolf hunt It waa quite near tha house. We all came out to look at 1L A big gray wolf, whoae lege had been tied together, 'waa brought out In a cart. It remained very quiet and merely glanced hatefully at those of ua who went cloaa by. Juat outside tha garden. the wolf waa taken from the cart, laid on tha ground and held In position with hla- forka. Then Its legs were untied arid It began to struggle and bite furi ously at the piece of wood which wss tied In Its mouth. At last everyone waa ready, the wood was pulled out of Its mouth, the rorxs woion neia it aown feet and stood motionless about 10 sec ond a. Then a signal waa given and tha greyhounds wars turned loose. Tha wolf,- tba greyhounds and the hunters rushed towsrd the fields, where the wolf got away from them. I well remember how angry my father'wae when he re turned, s t Ilka to think of my father, as I re member him, sitting on the sofa with my grandmother playing aolltaire. My feth er was polite and friendly to everybody, ha waa exceedingly respectful - toward grandmother. She aat on the aofa, her haaA covered with a lace cap, orna manted with a bow, laid the carda, and from tlma to time took a pinch of snuff from a golden taba tiers. Cloaa by tha sefs. In sn arm chair, aat Petrowna, a dealer in weapon, from lulai ehe wore t -"Deer lr I etole your moneys- Re a military Jacket and waa always apln- moras gnawe my oonaoienoe, and Z return pis very fast aad ..very, earelefsld aa Thirteen Years Old and Writes: enritoyait; at H ft (Br a Staff Oerreseeadeat.) RSULA BLOOM la a name that ; may aome day become famoua In literature, Ita possessor la only It yeara old. but flnda her chief delight In writing atoriea; in fact, aa aha quaintly puta it, "It gives ma a headache net t write. '- '. - -i .. She began writing whan ahe waa still a baby. . .Whan She was ( her flrat little boohv-'Tlge,' was prlntedwr The Prince of Walea' son. Prince "Eddie," read It and liked It very much and got hla papa to write te ' tha author and tell her how -mtfch he had enjoyed it. From tha Prlnceaa of Walea, the Coutiteaa of War wick and other great folk aha haa re oelved - lettere praising bar workr but they, have not turned her head a bit With all her-.precoctoue Imagination aha la a delightfully natural, child. Tha lit tle aketch which followa waa written by herself and is, I think, a decidedly Inter esting human document "I could write almoat before I eould crawl, and even in my babyhood a aheet of paper and a pencil would amuse me, but I could never get enough paper for a real big book, sot whan I waa very amall . I uaed to write on chalre and underneath tha table, and my nurse has often put ma In the corner for writing on tha wall. It was a proud day when I became aole owner of the waata paper basket, and I set to work to writs 'Mary, -Georgia' and "Rachel Monday," followed 'by 'Mark and May and 'Mary Spry.' Thla waa before I waa 4. and not being able to really write, I printed my lettera, aearchlng through , my favorite books, 'Susy's Six Birthdays' and 'Line Upon Line' for a alngle letter or word. Mummle haa kept 'Mary.- but I cannot read it, the only distinguishable part la 'Boo boo.- aatd uttia Alary. I win not have ml bootee tokened off.' Then papa muate some and whlpp herr,' sed nurelle.' ... .) "When I waa T I wrote atllt mora and Tiger waa printed when I was 8. The following three, yeara I wrote mora and more, and nowyI am II. I'm atllt writ ing; It glvaa me a headache not to write, I get auch lota of Ideaa oace I aee a aheet of paper before me and a pencil In my hand, I haven't half tlma enough to put them all .down. I 'have bad lota of fat wrltlng-booka given - ma lately and I'm going to apand haapa of tlma filling them, out . I - shall never enjoy tale aa much aa I enjoyed writing about Fluffy. . I nearly cry when a tale HUNTERS GIVE THEffi LIVES FOR CURIOS H . t , at V";-:-" r N the First Egyptian room st the Brltiah museum you will rind an object catalogued aa, No. 11.141. It is a mold in some ancient form of papier-mache of an Egyptian woman. presumably a priestess wno-uvea in Thebea aomewhera about 15 oenturlee ago. The molded face la of unuaual beauty, but has a eurlous expression of cold malignancy.-. r --. . f,-! Now one hears talae of emulate and suchlike-which possess-fstal piumHiee. and no doubt -moat' of ua regard auch atoriea aa intereatlng fiotlona. - But hare are tha cold facta . concerning this Egyptian maak. - It waa dlaeovered about 40 years ago by a party of five explorers; who went up the Nile to the -second cataract to explore the rulne of Thebea An Arab brought to them thla mummy case, and one of the party bought .it A few daya later one of the gentleman's servants shot himsslf accidentally and lost an arm, and aoon after another who had handled the caae waa accidentally killed. The third died within a year. The flnda ware apportioned by lot and the prleet eaa maak fell to another of the party. On hla arrival at Cairo, be found a let ter telling him that he bad lost most of .his money. . . x. .'..., t The Fatal Mommy Mold. ' - The case Waa handed to a lady, aiater of the owner.. From the time ahe re ceived It, everything went wrong In her houae and family. There la no apace here which the priestess" ownership caused, Suffice to aay that tha celebrated theoi ophiat Madame Blavataky once aaw it and begged the. owner to get rid of It at once, but the latter refused. Some yeara later It was ssnt to a photographer In Baker street to be pho tographed. Within - a few weeke the photographer died auddenly. ' The owner now agreed to Bend the priestess' Image to the Brltiah muaeum. The carrier died within a week, and tha man who assisted In moving the curio to Ita place shortly afterwards met with g aerloua accident t , ..' Of course, the whole ef theae various inoldents may - have been coincldencea. But the writer haa considerable doubta whether one Anawera reader In a thou aand would be willing to keep No. 21,141 If It were offered to iilm or her. Thla mummy caae la. not the only that I remember that her aplnnlng wheel had made quite a hole In the plaster of tha wall. . My aunta ware alttlng in arm chalre, arid one of them waa reading aloud. In another armchair Jhe black and yellow Mllka, my father'a favorite greyhound, was sleeping comfortably. We children were brought tn to eay good night, and were often allowed to Stay. Before we left the room we alwaya klased the hands of grandmother and the aunta I remember once how my father, in the midst of the card playing and reading, winked his eye snd pointed towsrd the mirror. We all looked In the same direction. It waa tha valet Tlachon. who, knowing that my father was in the living room, was now sneak ing Into . hla library to steal tobacco from hla, pouch. My father aaw him in tha mirror, where he eould plainly aee how-he-waa anaaklng-up oa tiptoe My aunta i laughed, while grandmother for aome time did not underatand. but at last ahe, too, laughed. I waa delighted at ths good nature of my father, and I klaaed his white, strong, muscular hand. I loved my father very much, but I did not realise hew atrong waa my love until he was dead. ..v ,.- - ?'. :' nemorse,, said Mayor Wells of 8t Louis, 'Is an exoellent thing whan deep enough. ' " 'The trouble with- most wrenf-doera, when remorae overUkea them, la that tha emotion le feeble and ahallow. 'The average type of remorse was that of a pickpocket who sent Isst yesr this note te a man whom he had robbed af lioo. herewith tl.ee,' ' Ill l " I 1 I I' . I U - h ' V ' XT 1 1" ii I 1 IS? A Girlish Writer Whoae Work Haa .'V'.- ,; :' '-. "'.' : i.V sula (Intereatlng to me) ie flnlahed. and yet I'm rather glad, for then I can begin another. '- . "My little magaslne keeps ma buay. too; It ia net really printed,, but all la manuscript, but I try to make It Ilka a real magaslne, all ahort atoriea and one aerial. It has been going for four years snd It's really vary great fun writing for It r, ' ; '. curiosity wEToh appears to bring Ill luck upon Ita owners. Madame . Sad I Carnot widow of the assassinated presi dent of France, . left a request In her will that her executora would deatroy a certain Hindoo Idol which. Waa to te found among her possessions. This Image waa quite amall, cut out of aome hard atone, and waa of enormous- an tiquity. - TV.'i ; .,'. i Prophecy Fulfilled.' it H1Ji htHuniW for eenturlea to-4he- rajahs of Khadjurao, and a legend clung to It that Ita owner would in every caae attain to aupreme power and then die by the knife. Thla atory waa told to M. Carnot by "the friend who had given It to hlra yeara before he became president of France. The prophecy came literally true. . Among the curiosities preserved by the family of tha famoua French de tective Glrouard la a gold ring made In the ahape of a snake with an opal In tha top of ita head and two eme.ral.a for eyea. Tba design Is so peculiar that tha ring could not fall to be recog nised by anyone who had ever aeen it Thla ring came to the Parle morgue five tlmea within SO yeara, each tlma upon the finger of a oorpea. , Inquiries have ahown that this place of Jewelry had a curae put upon It by a mother whoae only eon was killed In a duel by the wearer of the ring. The preeent owner of the ring would not wear It for any money. L A'few yeara ago an American eoldler. a eergeant In the Slxty-alxtn coast ar tllltry. whleh waa at the time stationed at Honolulu, went Inland to the base of the volcano, and under the shadow of 'the Beetling Diamond Head cliff, burled deeply an old violin. Then he returned to the barracks, and a few daya' later committed aulclde. - To thla violin his miserable end la attributed. The full history of this musical Instru ment Is unknown. - All that Is certain la that It seemed to have a fatal effect upon any one who owned It Previous to tha aergeant'a aulclde, three other persona who bad had tha violin in their possession had killed themselves. Ece-Hunters Fall to Death. ' Apart - from curios possessing mys teriously malignant effects, there are and have been many lives lost In - ths pursuit of rarities of -all klnda Egg hunting, flower-hunting, the search for Where Slaves Are Stilt For Sale ft at H NB by one the great slave mar Lets of the world are aiaap earing, yet within three hours' staam of Gibraltar. Morocco re mains ons of ths very few countries where the public auction of negroea, and other than negroea, , may atlll be wlt neaaad. Any traveler who flnda hla way to the Imperial city. Marrakeah, ahould make a point of visiting Its famous markat which haa recently been attract Ing the attenUon of , tha powers. A oantury age It was no uncommon thing for English men and. English women the captives of the Ralaulia of that day to paaa into lifelong slavery from the veryaame jrard, large x and squalid, whers I "have JuarwlTOmednhsuctton of aoms. 26 natlvea, aaya a traveler. It seems herd to believe that while England waa waging war with Napoleon the mala duty of her ambassadors tn Morocco waa o appeal to the sultan, cap In hand, and with ample offerings of carriages and cannone with tha Moors described as - "tribute "for ths reluase of British crewa and their wives, who had had tha ill fortune to be captured by the famoua rovers . of- Bailee and Rabat Faithful records of these trans actions may yet be found In tha diplo matic and eonaular reports of the period. At ebout I o'clock oa a Thursday after noon the proceedings of the Marrakeah auotlon opened with prayer the elghl or ten auctioneers, formed In line, rail ing for ths Divine blessing upon both buyer and seller! - In this appear, 1" re marked, the slaves were not mentioned. Thee, leavdlavt. hia ehatuta ties aa r p Been Praised by Royalty Mia Ur- Bloom..'-."' ' :-x .-.' '"-V .'My favorite plaee -te write te la our large apple tree," . - '.The accompanying photograph, taken., about the time - 'Tiger" . waa written, ahowa Ursula with bar little brother-and her dolla. There la no difficulty In ac counting for her remarkable talent She la tha daughter of the Rev. J. Harvey" Bloom, rector of Stretfdrd-on-Avon, a man of high literary attainments. the burled eurtoaitiea'of long past ages all theae constantly claim, their vic tims. Only last year a young German named Thlnand, while climbing in the Alpe In search of that rare and beauti ful flower, the edelwelaa, fell from the top of one . ef the Cornettes de Bias. He, dropped a aheer distance of over -ItalC a. mile and was smashed out of all human form,- . '-'.,', ., ' There stands In the muaeum of Ath ens -an' ancient and discolored marble atatna of the greek-goddess aphrodite., which cost the life of one At Us find ers.' It Is part of the cargo of a Ro man trireme which was found by sponge divera between the Island of Cert go and the Spartan ooaat, and no doubt waa booty which the Romans ware carrying back from Greece to their own capital. The aponge f ishere greatly axolted by their find, ssnt one of their number down to explore. ,-' He was the beat diver of the crew, but he never roes again. He became entangled -among the weeds and the timbers of the old wrack, and there hla dead, body waa afterward found close to tha etatue, whleh he eeemed to have ' tried to raise from Its sandy bed. A Life for an Orchid.. V Forstermann. the German, who holda the record of having dlaeovered nearly - 40 . orchids which were previously un- . known to science, tells the story of how one of his finds oost a human life. He waa far up In the wilds of the Siamese forect when, just before sunset, he no ticed with his fleldglasses an orchid Which he did not know gruwlni nlga ' on a tree overhead. The question waa whether- to stop and climb for It It was late, and the ground was unsuitable , for camping. Hla guide volunteered te go on ahead and search for a camping place while the othersprocured the orchid. "' " " This was agreed to, and ths party Wore buay securing the plant when a terrible scream was heard In the brush In front - Forstermann ran aa hard aa he could In the direction of the aound, and waa Juat In time to aee a huge tiger carrying off hla friend. He fol lowed, but darkness fell, and It was 7 not until next morning that they man aged to track and kill tha maneater and bury the remalna of its victim. The orchid was named after the man of ,. whoae death it had been Indirectly the cauae. ..'.' :.- , group of possible buyers : to another, each auctioneer went the round of the ; markat, stating ths amount of ths Isst bid. . The presencs of Europeans is not ' welcome at theae salea, but nothing was said te ua excepting -that we were -asked, .courteously enough, not to walk" , about For any looker-on to move from hla place would. It aeems, be a breach -of sieve- auction etiquette.. ' .No writer in eearch of startling ef- feets need visit the Marrakeah markat The whole thing la, as a rule, bualnesa like, not to aay humdrum. Naturally enough, , the slavea, especially the girts, ' are dressed In their best and artistically gTOsmedand-m many tasmra chantr nr" masters la looked ' forward to with pleasure. Somehow or other the horror'; we have felt at aome period of our Uvea evaporatee considerably on facing tha reality. It Is quits obvious, for one thing, that the average Moorish negro does not want freedom. . It la alao a . fact that, in nine oases out of ten, he ia far batter off than a free person of hla capacity dare hope to be. Indeed, it ia .no uncommon thing for a freed. alave to resell himself, and share the rtrice paid with the friend who Poses .. ss orlglnsl owner. We all, tn theory, recognise the , aomething , wrong . in alavery, but in soms mysterious way theory and practice claah. Of one thing we may rest assured. Jl plebiscite of Moorish alavaa -would emphatically re ject an offer or liberty 'which entailed the responsibility of working Uka an aswlaary laser ea ' ; -' . . T